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They're both false. The earth doesn't stay in place, and the "Lord" doesn't illuminate the sun.

Absolutely. I've visited Hindu and Zoroastrian temples, Islamic Mosques, Jewish Synagogues, and a plethora of Christian churches. In my spare time, I read a bit about the history and theology of various religions. I even took a class on world religions as part of my A.S. transfer degree...

Here's a couple more passages from literature of the past decade, commenting on the attitudes of scholarship towards the documentary hypothesis... 5. The documentary hypothesis is rigorously criticized. This is also true, but it certainly holds its stands within large parts of critical...

I don't have any desire to further a discussion with someone who so blatantly mischaracterizes my statements in what I can only guess is an attempt to exert unmerited scholarly authority. So I will not meet your challenges, but let whoever happens upon our exchange to draw their own conclusions.

Your earlier post clearly suggested that Brevard supported partial Mosaic authorship and opposed the documentary hypothesis, and that the scholarly community agreed with those ideas. I haven't read Brevard Childs, if that's what you mean (something I implicitly acknowledged in my last post by...

Perhaps not, but I disapprove of any implication that Wellhausen's work did not serve as an important foundation for future research. Neither did I. I would classify any attempts to isolate composite sources from the extant texts to fall under the umbrella of the term documentary...

They are subjective, but they are not assumptions, much less faith assumptions. Rather, they are conclusions based on weighing competing explanations against each other. True, but irrelevant. Sometimes the weight of evidence is so great that subjectivity has little variance among relatively...

Thanks to the religious context, you can always find people who will argue for traditional Mosaic authorship, but I'm afraid Brevard's work is by no means accepted by a majority in the scholarly community. If it flies in the face of the documentary hypothesis, quite the contrary.

It has always been under serious criticism, but the documentary hypothesis remains the single best explanatory account for the Pentateuch. This is not necessarily to say that it is probable in and of itself, but only that it is more probable than any other unique hypothesis, and that it is...

What I think most people mean by the term "gay agenda" is the collective of political movements which are aimed at or have the side-effect of promoting the homosexual lifestyle.

Supposedly the deluge destroyed Eden.

Exactly. Technically, it is true that I believe in a 4.54 bya earth, but it is misleading to use that terminology. The evidence demonstrates that the earth is 4.54 bya. That is the best way to put it, in my opinion.

It is uncertain, but not a wild guess. Whatever the answer, though, why did you even ask? ? That seems likely, which is perfectly consistent with my correction that most non-Christians have nothing against that translation. However, I was working within the context of non-Christians who...

Those three divisions are not principal, as often assumed, but they are indeed genetically-based. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics#Human_genetic_variation

The comment was a correction to this statement: That is not true; hence my response. If by "prefer the gospel to be extinguished" you mean prefer that Christians stop proselytizing, then probably most non-Christians fit that bill, yes. But they have nothing in particular against the...

Non-Christians have no general preference for or against the NIV, and they are certainly not pro-Latin.

KJVO advocates have accused Sinaiticus of having a large number of homoeoteleuta (about 300, they claim). A search of the Journal of Biblical Literature from 1973 to 2008 yielded no verification for this accusation. Moreover, I am not certain 300 really is a large number of such errors for an...

Yes. Mugabe should be treated as the dictator he is, regardless of whether or not the writings of Paul happen to support such a policy.

Creationists would argue that both paternity tests seek common descent, while phylogenetics assumes it. They are wrong, of course.

The age of the earth is about 4.54 billion years, with multiple lines of evidence agreeing on a broader range of 4.3-4.6 billion years. This evidence is complex, and to be honest I don't have a good enough background in geology to comment much on it. Therefore I will simply refer you to some...